Event Management tracks individual events to manage external systems. An event is a notification from one or more monitoring tools that indicate that something of interest has occurred, such as a log message, warning, or error. Event Management receives or pulls events from one or more external event sources and stores them in the Event [em_event] table. Event Management provides a list of raw incoming events.

Event Management receives external events and generates alerts based on event and alert action rules. Events can be sent directly to your instance using an email server, script, SNMP trap, or a web service API. The corresponding alerts appear on dashboards for tracking and remediation purposes.

Use event rules to generate alerts for tracking and remediation. Event rules are stored in the Event Rule [em_match_rule] table. Configure and customize event rules to manage events and alert generation.

Event Management receives external events via an event collector or script. If you are using a script to collect events, no configuration is required. All other methods of collecting events require configuration.